title: Activation and inhibition of protein kinase C protect rat neuronal cultures against ischemia-reperfusion insult.
abstract: The effect of activation and inhibition of protein kinase C (PKC) on the capacity of neurons to resist subsequent ischemic and ischemia-reperfusion-induced cell injury, was studied in a model of primary rat neuronal cultures, subjected to chemical ischemia. Activation of PKC by 1,2 dioctanoyl-rac-glycerol (DOG; 1 microM), or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA; 1 microM), as well as inhibition of the enzyme by chelerythrine (10 microM), or by calphostin C (0.2 microM), 10 min before the ischemic insult, resulted in acquisition of resistance against the two insults. The length of the 'time window of protection' induced by exposure to DOG and to chelerythrine was studied and found to last for several days. The results demonstrate an apparently 'paradoxical' phenomenon, in which both activation and inhibition of PKC in the same tissue induce protection. This may be explained by differential activation of various PKC isoforms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reshef
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sperling
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zoref-Shani
mesh_terms: D000470:Alkaloids; D000818:Animals; D053119:Benzophenanthridines; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004075:Diglycerides / Q000494:pharmacology; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D007511:Ischemia / Q000473:pathology*; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D009281:Naphthalenes / Q000494:pharmacology; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D010617:Phenanthridines / Q000494:pharmacology; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D015427:Reperfusion Injury / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000470:Alkaloids; D053119:Benzophenanthridines; D004075:Diglycerides; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D009281:Naphthalenes; D010617:Phenanthridines; C061465:calphostin complex; C044295:1,2-dioctanoylglycerol; C016299:chelerythrine; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate